An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists when an attacker establishes a vulnerable Netlogon secure channel connection to a domain controller, using the Netlogon Remote Protocol (MS-NRPC), aka 'Netlogon Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability'.
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A look at the cyber security trends from the third quarter of 2020.
Posted: 18 Dec, 20203 Min ReadThreat Intelligence SubscribeThreat Landscape Trends – Q3 2020A look at the cyber security trends from the third quarter of 2020.We took a look through telemetry from our vast range of data sources and selected some of the trends that stood out from July, August, and September 2020
From significant increases in Emotet and Cobalt Strike activity to a spike in the number of server vulnerability exploit at...
Evidence that advanced persistent threat group Cicada is behind attack campaign targeting companies in 17 regions and multiple sectors.
Posted: 17 Nov, 20208 Min ReadThreat Intelligence SubscribeJapan-Linked Organizations Targeted in Long-Running and Sophisticated Attack CampaignEvidence that advanced persistent threat group Cicada is behind attack campaign targeting companies in 17 regions and multiple sectors.A large-scale attack campaign is targeting multiple Japanese companies, including subsidiaries located in as many as 17 regions around the globe in a likely intelligence-ga...
Microsoft has enabled enforcement mode for updates addressing the Windows Zerologon vulnerability on all devices that installed
security updates.
is a critical Netlogon Windows Server process security flaw (tracked as CVE-2020-1472) that allows attackers to elevate privileges to domain administrators and take control over the domain following successful exploitation.
The patch released during the
rolled out in two phases and it forces secure Remote Procedure Call (RP...
Microsoft is taking matters into its own hands when it comes to companies that haven’t yet updated their systems to address the critical Zerologon flaw. The tech giant will soon by default block vulnerable connections on devices that could be used to exploit the flaw.
Starting Feb. 9, Microsoft said it will enable domain controller “enforcement mode” by default, a measure that would help mitigate the threat.
Microsoft Active Directory domain controllers are at the heart of the ...
Microsoft today warned admins that updates addressing the Windows Zerologon vulnerability will transition into the enforcement phase starting next month.
is a critical 10/10 rated security flaw tracked as CVE-2020-1472 which, when successfully exploited, enables attackers to elevate privileges to domain administrator and take control over the domain.
"We are reminding our customers that beginning with the February 9, 2021 Security Update release we will be enabling Domain Con...
Network-attached storage (NAS) maker QNAP today released security updates to address vulnerabilities that could enable attackers to take control of unpatched NAS devices following successful exploitation.
The eight
by QNAP affect all QNAP NAS devices running vulnerable software.
These
and
(XSS) security bugs the company rated as medium and high severity security issues.
The XSS vulnerabilities could allow remote attackers to inject malicious code within ...
Advanced persistent threat (APT) groups are actively exploiting a vulnerability in mobile device management security solutions from MobileIron, a new advisory warns.
The issue in question (CVE-2020-15505) is a remote code-execution flaw. It ranks 9.8 out of 10 on the CVSS severity scale, making it critical. The flaw was patched back in June, however, a proof of concept (PoC) exploit became available in September. Since then, both hostile state actors and cybercriminals have attempted to ex...
These statistics are based on detection verdicts of Kaspersky products received from users who consented to provide statistical data.
According to Kaspersky Security Network, in Q3:
In Q3 2020, Kaspersky solutions blocked attempts to launch one or more types of malware designed to steal money from bank accounts on the computers of 146,761 users.
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China-backed APT Cicada joins the list of threat actors leveraging the Microsoft Zerologon bug to stage attacks against their targets. In this case, victims are large and well-known Japanese organizations and their subsidiaries, including locations in the United States.
Researchers observed a “large-scale attack campaign targeting multiple Japanese companies” across 17 regions and various industry sectors that engaged in a range of malicious activity, such as credential theft, data exf...
Ransomware operators are using malicious fake ads for Microsoft Teams updates to infect systems with backdoors that deployed Cobalt Strike to compromise the rest of the network.
The attacks target organizations in various industries, but recent ones focused on the education sector (K-12), which depends on videoconferencing solutions due to Covid-19 restrictions.
In a non-public security advisory seen by BleepingComputer, Microsoft is warning its customers about these FakeUpdates camp...
Threat attackers continue to exploit the Microsoft Zerologon vulnerability, a situation that’s been a persistent worry to both the company and the U.S. government over the last few months. Both on Thursday renewed their pleas to businesses and end users to update Windows systems with a patch Microsoft released in August to mitigate attacks.
Despite patching awareness efforts, Microsoft said it is still receiving “a small number of reports from customers and others” about active exp...
Microsoft today warned that threat actors are continuing to actively exploit systems unpatched against the ZeroLogon privilege escalation vulnerability in the Netlogon Remote Protocol (MS-NRPC).
"Microsoft has received a small number of reports from customers and others about continued activity exploiting a vulnerability affecting the Netlogon protocol (CVE-2020-1472) which was previously addressed in security updates starting on August 11, 2020," MSRC VP of Engineering Aanchal Gupta sa...
QNAP today announced two vulnerabilities affecting QTS, the operating system powering its network-attached storage devices, that could allow running arbitrary commands.
The bugs are remotely exploitable and have been reported in versions of the software released before September 8, 2020.
The network-attached storage (NAS) device vendor does not provide too many details about the two issues but says that recent QTS releases include the necessary patches.
According to QNAP’s <...
Throughout 2020, ransomware activity has become increasingly prolific, relying on an ecosystem of distinct but co-enabling operations to gain access to targets of interest before conducting extortion. Mandiant Threat Intelligence has tracked several loader and backdoor campaigns that lead to the post-compromise deployment of ransomware, sometimes within 24 hours of initial compromise. Effective and fast detection of these campaigns is key to mitigating this threat.
The malware families ena...
Threat actors have been chaining vulnerabilities in Windows and Virtual Private Network (VPN) services to target various government agencies, critical infrastructure and election organizations, according to a warning by the United States’ Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). The technique, which involves exploiting several flaws over the course of a single attack to infiltrate an organization’s network, is part of the gangs’ ram...
Microsoft has pushed out fixes for 87 security vulnerabilities in October – 11 of them critical – and one of those is potentially wormable.
There are also six bugs that were previously unpatched but publicly disclosed, which could give cybercriminals a leg up — and in fact at least one public exploit is already circulating for this group.
This month’s Patch Tuesday overall includes fixes for bugs in Microsoft Windows, Office and Office Services and Web Apps, Azure Functions, ...
U.S. government officials have warned that advanced persistent threat actors (APTs) are now leveraging Microsoft’s severe privilege-escalation flaw, dubbed “Zerologon,” to target elections support systems.
Days after Microsoft sounded the alarm that an Iranian nation-state actor was actively exploiting the flaw (CVE-2020-1472), the Cybersecurity Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) published a joint advisory warning of further attacks.
Microsoft is warning that cybercriminals have started to incorporate exploit code for the ZeroLogon vulnerability in their attacks. The alert comes after the company noticed ongoing
attacks from cyber-espionage group MuddyWater (SeedWorm) in the second half of September.
This time, the threat actor is TA505, an adversary who is indiscriminate about the victims it attacks, with a
starting with the distribution of Dridex banking trojan in 2014.
Over the years, the actor...
Microsoft is warning that an Iranian nation-state actor is now actively exploiting the Zerologon vulnerability (CVE-2020-1472), adding fuel to the fire as the severe flaw continues to plague businesses.
The advanced persistent threat (APT) actor, which Microsoft calls MERCURY (also known as MuddyWater, Static Kitten and Seedworm) has historically targeted government victims in the Middle East to exfiltrate data. Exploiting the bug allows an unauthenticated attacker, with network access ...
Microsoft today warned that the Iranian-backed MuddyWater cyber-espionage group was observed using ZeroLogon exploits in multiple attacks during the last two weeks.
The ongoing attacks exploiting the critical 10/10 rated CVE-2020-1472 security flaw were spotted by Microsoft's Threat Intelligence Center.
"MSTIC has observed activity by the nation-state actor MERCURY using the CVE-2020-1472 exploit (ZeroLogon) in active campaigns over the last 2 weeks," Microsoft
earlier to...
A spike in exploitation attempts against the Microsoft vulnerability CVE-2020-1472, known as the Zerologon bug, continues to plague businesses.
That’s according to researchers from Cisco Talos, who warned that cybercriminals are redoubling their efforts to trigger the elevation-of-privilege bug in the Netlogon Remote Protocol, which was addressed in the August Microsoft Patch Tuesday report. Microsoft announced last week that it had started observing active exploitation in the wild: “W...
Microsoft clarified the steps customers should take to make sure that their devices are protected against ongoing attacks using Windows Server Zerologon (CVE-2020-1472) exploits.
The company revised the advisory after customers found Microsoft's original guidance confusing and were unsure if applying the patch was enough to protect vulnerable Windows Server devices from attacks.
In a step-by-step approach, the updated advisory now explains the exact actions that administrators need ...
The “perfect” Windows vulnerability known as the Zerologon bug is getting a patch assist from two non-Microsoft sources, as they strive to fill in the gaps that the official fix doesn’t address.
Both Samba and 0patch have issued fixes for CVE-2020-1472, which, as previously reported, stems from the Netlogon Remote Protocol, available on Windows domain controllers, which is used for various tasks related to user- and machine-authentication.
Exploiting the bug allows an unauthent...
Microsoft has warned that attackers are actively using the Windows Server Zerologon exploits in attacks and advises all Windows administrators to install the necessary security updates.
As part of the
security updates, Microsoft fixed a critical 10/10 rated security vulnerability known as '
| Netlogon Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability'.
This vulnerability has been named 'Zerologon' by cybersecurity firm Secura, and when exploited, allows attackers to
and t...
Federal agencies that haven’t patched their Windows Servers against the ‘Zerologon’ vulnerability by Monday Sept. 21 at 11:59 pm EDT are in violation of a rare emergency directive issued by the Secretary of Homeland Security.
With only hours until the deadline for the directive, issued on Friday, to be executed, what is at stake is a “vulnerability [that] poses an unacceptable risk to the Federal Civilian Executive Branch and requires an immediate and emergency action,” according...
Proof-of-concept (PoC) exploit code has been released for a Windows flaw, which could allow attackers to infiltrate enterprises by gaining administrative privileges, giving them access to companies’ Active Directory domain controllers (DCs).
The vulnerability, dubbed “Zerologon,” is a privilege-escalation glitch (CVE-2020-1472) with a CVSS score of 10 out of 10, making it critical in severity. The flaw was addressed in Microsoft’s August 2020 security updates. However, this week at...
Researchers have released exploits for the Windows Zerologon CVE-2020-1472 vulnerability that allow an attacker to take control of a Windows domain. Install patches now!
As part of the August 2020 Patch Tuesday security updates, Microsoft fixed a critical 10/10 rated security vulnerability known as '
| Netlogon Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability'.
After successfully exploiting this vulnerability, attackers are able to elevate their privileges to a domain administrator and t...
Two Microsoft vulnerabilities are under active attack, according the software giant’s August Patch Tuesday Security Updates. Patches for the flaws are available for the bugs, bringing this month’s total number of vulnerabilities to 120.
One of the flaws being exploited in the wild is (CVE-2020-1464), a Windows-spoofing bug tied to the validation of file signatures on Windows 10, 7 8.1 and versions of Windows Server. Rated “important,” the flaw allows an adversary to “bypass secur...
The rather concerning design flaw in Microsoft's netlogon protocol is being exploited in the wild by miscreants, the Windows giant's security team has warned.
The mega-biz today confirmed it is seeing active attacks abusing the CVE-2020-1472 vulnerability, aka ZeroLogon, which can be exploited to bypass authentication and gain domain-level administrator access in corporate networks.
The protocol-level hole affects Windows Server and other software that implements MS-NRPC to provide d...
Uncle Sam's Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has taken the unusual step of issuing an emergency directive that gives US government agencies a four-day deadline to roll out a Windows Server patch.
The directive, issued on September 18, demanded that executive agencies to take “immediate and emergency action” to patch CVE-2020-1472, the CVSS-perfect-ten-rated flaw that Dutch security outfit Secura BV said allows attackers to instantly become domain admin by subvert...
The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has taken the unusual step of issuing an emergency directive that gives US government agencies a four-day deadline to implement a Windows Server patch.
The directive, issued on September 18th, demanded that executive agencies to take “immediate and emergency action” to patch CVE-2020-1472, the CVSS-perfect-ten-rated flaw that Dutch security outfit Secura BV said allows attackers to instantly become domain admin by subvertin...
If you're wondering which bugs in particular miscreants are exploiting to break into, or attempt to break into, US government networks, wonder no more. And then make sure you've patched them.
Uncle Sam's Dept of Homeland Security has this month identified at least six possible routes into the nation's computer systems, and the method used to gain total control over the machines once inside. Those six vulnerabilities are...
...plus CVE-2020-1472, aka ZeroLogon, in Microsoft Windows, w...
Government-backed hackers have compromised and gained access to US elections support systems by chaining together VPN vulnerabilities and the recent Windows CVE-2020-1472 security flaw.
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) says that advanced persistent threat (APT) actors used this vulnerability chaining tactic to target federal and SLTT (state, local, tribal, and territorial) government networks, as well as election organizations, and critical infrastructure....
Today is Microsoft's August 2020 Patch Tuesday, and while this is just a typical day for most of you, Windows administrators around the world want to pull their hair out.
With the release of the August 2020 Patch Tuesday security updates, Microsoft has released one Servicing Stack Update for Windows 10 advisory and fixes for 120 vulnerabilities in Microsoft products.
Of these vulnerabilities, 17 are classified as Critical, and 103 are classified as Important.
This release is...
Many memorable events get named, whether they're hurricanes, political events, or security incidents like the Morris Worm, which surfaced 32 years ago yesterday.
But named security incidents recently have editorialized their own importance with fear-mongering monikers like Heartbleed (2014), Meltdown, Spectre, and Foreshadow (2018), and Fallout and ZombieLoad (2019).
Not all do so. There have been less emotionally loaded bug names proposed, like CacheOut, CrossTalk, and RIDL, but nam...
Administrators running Samba as their domain controllers should update their installations as the open-source software suffers from the same ZeroLogon hole as Microsoft's Windows Server.
An alert from the project confirms its code, in certain configurations, is also vulnerable to the CVE-2020-1472 bug, which can be exploited to gain domain-level administrator access. The vulnerability lies in the design of Microsoft's Netlogon Remote Protocol (MS-NRPC), which Samba inherited as it supports...
In our first Microsoft weekly news roundup, we bring you the latest news regarding Windows 10, Microsoft, and this week's Ignite 2020 conference.
During Ignite 2020, Microsoft highlighted the new improvements coming to Windows 10's WSL, Microsoft Teams, Your Phone, and other products. In addition, Microsoft also acknowledged a new issue in September 2020 patch and offered fix for those getting WSL "Element not found" error.
Below is the list of top new features ...
Network-attached storage device maker QNAP warns customers that some NAS storage devices running vulnerable versions of the QTS operating system are exposed to attacks attempting to exploit the critical Windows ZeroLogon (CVE-2020-1472) vulnerability.
"If exploited, this elevation of privilege vulnerability allows remote attackers to bypass security measures via a compromised QTS device on the network," QNAP explains in a security advisory published on Monday.
"The NAS may be expos...
Patch Tuesday Patch Tuesday used to be Microsoft's day to release patches. Now Adobe, Intel, and SAP are routinely joining the fun – with special guest star Red Hat this month.
If you've felt overwhelmed by the sheer number of security patches Microsoft has emitted this year, you are not alone. Patch watchers at the Zero Day Initiative said that, including the 120 product security bulletins posted this August, Microsoft is just 11 patches away from surpassing its 2019 full-year total wit...
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